ABSTRACT
For further knowledge about moisture transport processes and their dependencies, it is important to develop experimental methods delivering profiles of state variables and driving potentials. One is the Instantaneous Profile Measurement technique introduced by Plagge et al. (2006), providing moisture content and moisture potential at different sample positions versus time.
This study shows results of simultaneous measured moisture potential and moisture content data versus time during adsorption and desorption processes. On the basis of steady state methods, material functions can be adjusted and used for simulation of the dynamic experiments. Analysis of measured steady state, measured dynamic and simulated dynamic experiments contains high potential information gain. This will be shown and discussed, drawing conclusions about the influence of hysteresis, process dynamics and liquid transport at low humidities.
